Nick, one thing that would prevent me from every buying a PS3 for blu ray play back is the damn menues... I have a buddy who has one, and i couldn't even get the movie that i loaded to play.... I am not a gamer at all, so i have 0 experience with PS3 menue structure, i wound up tossing him the remote.....

The RF remote is a nice thing to have though!

You can setup the PS3 to auto-play the BR discs when you load it. But lack of IR/RF is a pain. You have to use PS3 controllers or get an adapter to use IR.